 Alright so all of a sudden Ronny2k is replying to people on Twitter and it seems like based on what he's saying and wait hold up This is what Ronny said bro had to get the crew reorganized We're in a good place now, which frees me up to talk to you guys more again I don't know what getting the crew organized means or whatever, but it seems like ever since LD left We haven't really had a community manager or anybody to reach out to so yo, this is my shot 33 things I really disliked about 2k 18 that I'm hoping can be improved for 2k 19 Yo, by the way, I run a podcast It's on all the major platforms off-top podcast with my guy legend and winning we talk NBA if you guys are interested I'm a leave a link at the top of the description. Hope to see you guys there Also subscribe to the channel if you guys are new. All right enough plugs. Let's get it Whoa, okay, 33 things thing number one. It had to be number one VC Tone it down just a little bit. You don't I mean I talked about it enough Just we know that's been the main complaint with the game for the last two three years Just just a little bit like we can't tone it just okay All right, the game is pay-to-win is one thing if you have micro transactions you buy VC and it's only cosmetic But this is not only cosmetic it affects gameplay I'm playing pro and it's gotten to the point where I literally have to buy attribute boosts Just to keep up with people and because you don't make enough VC on program I have to start spending VC to buy attribute moves. Oh If you're gonna have micro transactions just like Rainbow Six see us go for tonight Please make it specifically cosmetic so it's not impacting the gameplay my GM is incredibly repetitive I have had a history with my GM my goodness After the first two times you begin like it's not dynamic You just get really bored of the same thing over and over and over again It's like yo, I'd rather do something else with my time my league online is lit though Of course the fact that there's no private matchmaking and pro and we expected in 17 We definitely expected it in 18 and based on the fact that the 2k league even though It's on land has private matchmaking now. I definitely expect it in 2k 19 There needs to be a meaningful leveling system Why is how you go up in overall dependent on how much time you play instead of how good you are on rainbow six A guy could play quadruple quintuple. What's how do you go higher than that? He could play a lot more than me But if I'm winning my games and I usually do all right I usually do then I'll have a higher rep than him I'll be like a plat 2 and he'll be a plat 3 whatever the case the rankings should be Based on how good you are. That's what a ranking is your ranking How good people are and not how much time they've spent on the game especially my career grinding Which we know doesn't equate to skill variable latency in 2k 18 drives me crazy So just for those who don't know in the middle of the game the latency is high and then it drops down too low And then it goes to high then medium There's no ping number to tell you what the specific Milliseconds of delay is from when you click the button on your controller to when the action is actually performed in the game When it changes like that, I like to use the example. It's like shooting a gun But every single time you shoot it has a different recoil pattern. There's absolutely no way you can master your shot You probably get good at it But there's no way to master it and reduce the skills gap and it makes the game frustrating to play there were leaderboards a very basic Version in 17 and 16 and they even removed that there needs to be a leaderboard system It is so Innovating to play a game just knowing that yo, I'm at 1,000 I need to get to one or even if you're a casual like yeah, I'm at one million I need to get to at least a hundred thousand the only logical explanation I could think of for why they would remove leaderboards is to ease pressure on the servers I can't get into technicalities because I don't know what it takes to create a Stable server or anything like that But what I do know is I've played games with more stable servers than 2k So of course they have some progress and need to make in that department for sure The teammate great system is a joke the fact that people can get kicked out of a game because of a teammate great system that never accounts for all the complexities that That that's gonna happen over the course of a basketball game Bro, I'm so tired of getting called for leaving my assignment when I'm making the right defensive play and rotating It is so frustrating and then like you do a couple turnovers by mistake And now you're at a D and you're you got to worry like yo You can't get kicked out the game now You got to start playing like a clown and you're not really playing real basketball You see where I'm going with this the teammate great system either has to go or be improved I don't even know why it's still in the game for anything outside of my career The animation glitches ruined the meta on 2k 18 the second chart shooters and stretch big started to hippity hop around I knew we were gonna see the same cheese that we saw last year back at it again this year So next year, please 2k do not allow any animation glitches because once people get the animations There is no way to take it back from them The lag is ridiculous for plenty of reasons. You do not me need me to get in Okay, it's a lot easier to make your shots when your footage is not cutting up 24-7 The dribbling in the game has gotten so simple it being the past where you could combine a spin move with the hop and then Momentum momentum and then hot like it was a there was a lot more to it And it was definitely some cheese involved, right? But I feel like all they really had to do was boost defense and not nerf all of the offensive abilities of some of these Point guards that were dribbling now what we see in 2k 18 is momentum hop momentum hop momentum hop And they just keep doing it over and over again until they force the ankle breaker And then at that point you can't even do anything to defend against it You just have to catch the L if we're talking about dribbling. We need to talk about blow by animations Joe just tone it down Geez even if I'm a sharpshooter just tone it down Just there's no reason someone should just have to click R2 to get by you if you're not in defensive position And you're a sharpshooter make sense blow by you should get blown But if first of all I'm a slasher or like an archetype with more weight and on top of the fact that I'm in good I just don't a little bit just a little bit I was playing fortnight with Davis the other day and he called 2k 18 snatch back 18 And I'm gonna start calling it that too because that's really all you see when you play especially against any decent folk Just snacks backs and snacks backs and then it causes a lot of ankle breakers It's a really good trigger and it also guarantees your room to pull up for your shot And you just keep snatching it back until you see something happen How was there lag switches on 2k 18? My understanding is this because I used to have a lag switch lag switches only work on peer-to-peer servers When I used to play so-com and even when I was playing modern warfare 2 when I used my lag switch I had to be host for my lag switch to work. How is it that 2k does not have peer-to-peer servers Which means if somebody quits the game it doesn't have to say waiting to transfer host You know, there's no no there's no peer-to-peer host. I don't understand and maybe it's just my knowledge is limited here How are people lag switching me on the stage that they first of all those guys need to go But so does the lag switch. I don't even know how that works But we need to handle that situation for sure for sure next year Yo, it is the worst feeling to get delayed or lag switch when I'm on a 25k court with a lot of VC on the line On that note, there needs to be a better way to report players the fact that that guy I played with I was playing a video on the stage and I got lag switch I was recording luckily and I talked about him in the video people show me a screenshot of him two days You go still walking around that guy has not been banned There's no active way to report players who are not only cheesing but literally cheating They are cheating they're lag switching to get ahead. Yo, everybody report this guy to PSN man Report this guy bro get him out of here can't stand people that play like this The program ranking system is a joke You will get higher on the ranking system by dodging competition If you try and match up with other teams and have interesting games and really improve You're gonna get penalized because you will lose games if you're playing against top 25 teams all the time But if you're in the top 100 and you're just ducking and dodging every single time you're playing against a good team Then you're just gonna skyrocket in the rankings and then people get the false impression that you're a decent team In reality, you'd get bought by all the teams in the top 100. Okay? I've talked about this in the past no need to go in depth on it But yo, we should be able to talk to the other team point blank You're calling it a playground, but there's no communication between anybody But the two guys on your own team on the park. Come on. That's just a feature That's in every game, but that was also in previous games. I don't know why it's been removed But it has to be back it so many phenomenal moments just talking to the other team Whether it was making a friend or making an enemy is gone. We need patch notes, man Like you just like really this gave up on trying to do any sort of patch notes They will drop a patch and they got to the point where they're like, yo You wouldn't even need the notes no more man. We're just gonna oh well who cares at this point It's like nah We still kind of want to know what we're downloading on our ps4 Like remember when rainbow six dropped a patch on ps4 that just were breaking systems and messing up friends list your ps4 Was crashing I just want to know what I'm downloading Especially if it impacts the gameplay the playground is incredibly inconvenient if you're gonna have a playground And it seems like based on what Ronnie's been Oh, my PC can't just turn off while I'm right here If you're gonna have a playground you need to make it more convenient I should be able to choose which spot I spawn on they shouldn't automatically determine I want to spawn you the statue different things like I shouldn't have to go all the way to my closet go up A elevator that takes a century to get to my house just to be able to change a hat that I want to wear a lot Of games understand this in Assassin's Creed I don't have to go across the map on a 30-minute journey just to meet somebody if I've been there before and I went to one Of those towers and did the leap of faith then I could just teleport there because they're trying to increase Convenience and they don't want to put you through the hassle of wasting your time on their game They want you to have fun So definitely spawn points just find ways to make the park more convenient in the name of convenience One of the frustrating thing that happens a lot is you'll be walking with your squad in the statue area And then when you get near the playground sometimes you'll go through like a server barrier and one of your members just disappears Then you have to wait to invite him to the court You guys know what I'm talking about because it's happened to you at least once. I don't know what that is but like It has to like be fixed for sure next year 2k if we're gonna nerf jump shots We're gonna be honest about it and then we're also not gonna do it at all actually is not cheating to know a good jump shot If I spent a lot of time working in the jump shot creator I just feel like I should be rewarded for something like that And so to see some of the developers say that it feels like I have a an edge over the yes Because I worked for the edge. What is the pay-to-win system? We have not an edge, but when they're making money off it I guess it doesn't matter whether it's an edge or not But it's like just leave the jump shots alone jump shots are fine. The system works great I mean, honestly, I feel like your shooting should depend more on your timing than your jump shot But it does give an advantage to the folks that go out of their way to learn these jump shots And luckily for those people me other folks on YouTube drop videos So it's not even like they don't know what jump shots to use. I'm dropping the videos So it's really no reason to ever touch a jump shot ever everywhere. I look on 2k is ads Mountain Dew Ruffles event If you go to buy your booths where you're doing the whole pay-to-win system There's ruffles bags just standing there. You can't go nowhere without catching a billboard. Sometimes there's cutscenes for like I get like make money cool and like but just a little bit tone it down like just actually a lot like Jesus There's so many ads man. There's a lot of ads going on. I just want a little less ads in my life There's a reason I don't watch regular tv no more. I just watch Netflix I just I just really want to minimize the ads in my life in the name of ads How about those unskippable cutscenes? I'm sure 2k made some sort of deal with like Mountain Dew and then like they can't skip the cutscenes now because They promised Mountain Dew this many impressions. I don't care what the reason is I just know that I don't want to sit there for five minutes and waste my time with cutscenes that I don't care about And I think everybody agrees on that if you want to watch them good for you But I don't and I should be able to skip them if that's the case the mykord camera on 3v3s is Absolutely atrocious is barely usable and just expand the mykord a little bit to give space for the camera Or try and find a different camera all together But I don't see why they don't just expand the mykord just a little bit so the camera isn't hugging the wall So you could actually see what's going on on defense and offense The playground is bland and a lot of people have been saying this more and more and more as the year goes on It is so dry everywhere you look is just gray gray gray gray gray Anytime I got bored of sunset beach in 2k 17 I would just go to old town for the next week and play on the old town course And then I get tired of old town because that shit was laggiest And now I go on rivet city bro and I chill in rivet city for a few days before I so it was like a rotation It was a different environment, but this year is just everything is so gray It's so is so entirely gray and dry and boring. They need to spice it up a little bit There's a 1v1 court But they put it like In the middle of nowhere on the playground and literally nobody plays on it because not only is it in the middle of nowhere It's up to three It is not only the biggest waste of time But a botched attempt at what could be a phenomenal king of the hill type 1v1 mode I just think they need to place it better on the next game and come on up to three That's at least up to five, but like maybe up to 11 will be cool Maybe just put a timer on them for like five minutes. I don't know But what I do know is nobody uses it and there's a reason for that. My team is incredibly expensive I didn't even really want to add too much my team stuff in this list because I didn't give it a chance this year And honestly, I don't want to go deep into my pockets just to pay for packs with absolutely no guarantee That I'm going to get any cards It just felt like the time I had to invest into it isn't worth what I think I'd be getting out And so I've just been afraid to try it I don't want to waste 20 hours on it and find out like yep You can't win unless you pay for the best cards The badge grind improved significantly in 2k 18 because they allowed us to grind our badges on the program in the park So you can do it online But still you should never get to the point in a game where like you're just Dreadfully bored of doing the thing that you consider grinding It's not fun to grind badges like I feel like it shouldn't take time as much as it should take skill to grind badges There has to be a way to create a leveling system That's diverse and dynamic and doesn't just require you to sit at the corner three on my career Just chucking shots up for like six hours to get a badge. That's not fun in 2k 17 There was a way to change your jump shots between games So if I felt like something wasn't working I didn't have to step off and then wait and then ruin my streak No, I could change it on the spot But since the introduction of the my player lab Which is dope because now you could create jump shots without going back to your my court Like in 2k 17, but now you can't change your jump shots without opening up the my player lab So you can't change them in between games. I feel like on the note of convenience once again We should be able to change the jump shots the same way I should be able to put on like a bracelet or a hat or whatever the case is This is I assume a glitch But the 96 overalls keep viping people off of winning streaks That is if I cared about winning streaks and I was like at a 90 or something and I got vip'd off I would lose my mind The fact that that wasn't patched all year I think it's crazy because I really thought it'd be patched by like patch one or patch two But there should be no way that the winners on the court in the park are kicked off for any reason whatsoever I don't care if you're a million overall like my career grinders Really, those are the guys that are able to kick. Come on, man It's not even like they're the best players. They're my career grinders and they might be cool They might be straight But you shouldn't be kicking off the winners just the losers One of the most frustrating things about 2k is that you can't try new players without spending $50 on vc And then spending the time to get all of the badges for the players before you can determine if you like the build or not There's no way to test or try something out And it's part of the reason why I really enjoyed the combine Is I gotta try out so many new builds and it costed me nothing And so I feel like there should be a way to try just test Do a trial run on some of these builds that people are interested in Of course, that would also mean that 2k wouldn't be making a lot of money on botched builds But I think a lot of people will be happy to know they're not wasting money on a build that they're not gonna have interest in In like two days. So there's two more. Jesus. This is long. I was gonna do 50 I couldn't think of 50. So I stopped at 33. Yo, there was a theater system on the 2k league Now listen 2k servers already garbage So I don't know how smart it would be to now introduce a theater system Where they're saving all these videos for people But I do think there should be a way we're like, let's say I had a fantastic game And uh, I want to save the last 30 seconds or just save the last game You should be able to sit click square and then it saves it for you for like seven days or something At that point you can use your xbox ps4 if you have an Elgato or recording software record it yourself So I think black ops 1 initially popularized the whole theater mode thing at least for me Even fortnight just recently introduced it Which by the way could explain the recent lag issues ever since has been introduced But if it's not going to lag up the entire servers just the way it was on the 2k league just to be able to Sift through your gameplay. I think would be dope Actually, you might not even need to do that because you at least on the playstation You could just click the share button and say the last uh 30 minutes, right or 15 minutes and last but not least Uh, there needs to be park matchmaking because it's it takes too much time to find games on the park Especially if you're not like a 80 or 90 overall player If you're like a 65 nobody's gonna want to play with you and then you're spending 20 minutes to get into a game You just lose the motivation to play park, right? It's either you have to grind my career until you're good enough so people want to play with you You just ease the tension as some sort of matchmaking for people that just want to hop into games And you don't even need me to say ranked unranked. You don't need me to say all that stuff this video Okay, I'm not gonna talk about a skills gap. We all know about that stuff But these are the things that I didn't like about 2k 18. I'm hoping get improved I assume they tackled at least some of the issues already. I can't imagine nothing on the list has been not Remotely brought up to the developers or if not Try to be solved that makes sense. Listen, man. That's my list. All right It's 33 things right there if I missed any leave them in the comments down below Yo, if you guys are new again subscribe to the channel off top podcast link in the description Yo, uh, I've got a couple things I got to handle so I'm gonna catch you guys later. I'm out peace